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Speaker 1: And there's tons of trade talk to get to and

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Speaker 1: we will dive into it all next here on This

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Speaker 3: Welcome to This League Uncut. In you wrule of twenty

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Speaker 3: four hour NBA news, this news, you'll Chris Hanes, It's time,

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Speaker 3: work's time, It's so time. This League Uncut is underway

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Speaker 3: and on fire. This should be a good one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in everyone to another edition of This League Uncut,

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Speaker 1: actually a part two of what has become our Anniversary

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Speaker 2: As I mentioned in the last.

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Speaker 1: Episode earlier this week, This League Uncut happily celebrated its

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Speaker 1: one year anniversary. The first episode in the history of

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Speaker 1: this show aired via iHeart Productions on January thirtieth, twenty

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Speaker 1: January thirtieth, twenty twenty four. All kinds of circumstances beyond

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Speaker 1: here with this Thursday night taping that is delivering two episodes.

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Speaker 1: In Part one, we talked about the coaches All Star

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Speaker 1: reserve selections. In the East and the West. Who made

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Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of talk about how

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Speaker 1: And I missed it, man, And that and Dirk's farewell

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Speaker 1: At least there is now a tangible market that we

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Speaker 1: The talks have not gone dormant. There still is a

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Speaker 2: Why are you going east?

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Speaker 4: I have a game. I have a game for I

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Speaker 4: got a T and T game. So initially I had

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Speaker 4: I had Dallas and next Tuesday, which would be February sixth.

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Speaker 4: Then I had Dallas Nicks on trade deadline February eight,

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Speaker 4: So they've taken me off that February eighth, so I

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Speaker 4: can concentrate on trade news. So I'm going to stay

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Speaker 4: still because I would have stayed in New York from

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Speaker 4: Monday through Friday anyway, so I'm going to I'm going

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Speaker 4: to stay there, just have one game that week and

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Speaker 4: focus on trade stuff on the deadline. But yeah, I

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Speaker 4: love New York.

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Speaker 1: You were very confident Pascal Siakam will get traded.

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Speaker 2: And he did. He is now an Indiana pacer.

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Speaker 1: You have also been pretty confident that a de Jonte

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Speaker 1: Murray trade would happen. I reported over the weekend that

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Speaker 1: there had been little to know recent contact between the

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Speaker 1: Lakers and the Hawks after the initial talks that they

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Speaker 1: very much did have, but with the deadline coming back.

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Speaker 1: We'll have to see does that get sparked up again.

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Speaker 1: Is somebody else going to swoop in and make Atlanta

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Speaker 1: an offer for de Jonte Murray that they like or

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, de Jontay Murray's contract is.

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Speaker 2: His contract is.

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Speaker 1: Such that the Hawks don't have to trade him now

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Speaker 1: if the offers that come in, if they don't like him,

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Speaker 1: Jontay Murray's going to generate interest at the draft. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not like they have to trade him right now.

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Speaker 4: And that's what I've been told. They feel. The Hawks

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Speaker 4: don't feel like they're in an urgent manner in which

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Speaker 4: they have to do something this instant. They're very comfortable

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Speaker 4: with going into the offseason and then trying to see

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Speaker 4: what can be done there. So yet you're you're one

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Speaker 4: hundred percent correct on that front. Also, Stein throw in

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Speaker 4: a pair of wing defenders in Brooklyn Dorian Finney, Smith,

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Speaker 4: Royce O'Neil. They're getting traction from. There's some teams that

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Speaker 4: are in need of some wing defense. Those guys fit

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Speaker 4: the bill. So though those are some names as.

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Speaker 1: Well, Dorian Finney, Smith, Royce O'Neill, and Spencer Dinwiddie. Those

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Speaker 1: are the three Nets considered most available and most likely

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Speaker 1: to move. I reported earlier today on my sub stack.

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Speaker 1: Though I've been I've been hearing this week more than once,

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Speaker 1: do not completely discount the idea that Nick Claxton gets moved.

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Speaker 1: I know there's been a lot of mixed signals. There's

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Speaker 1: talk that the Nets want to keep him, but I've

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Speaker 1: also heard it from the other perspective that don't be

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Speaker 1: surprised if something happens with Claxton. I think teams around

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Speaker 1: the league have had trouble pinpointing what are the nets

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Speaker 1: true intentions with Claxton? Do they intend to resign him

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Speaker 1: this summer? Because Claxton is going to be an unrestricted

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Speaker 1: free agent, Houston has made some attempts to try to

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Speaker 1: get McHale Bridges away from the Nets. That does not

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Speaker 1: appear to be happening. The Nets do seem pretty set

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Speaker 1: about not trading McHale Bridges. But I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think we got to keep our eyes on the

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Speaker 1: Nets for potential, multiple potential other moves.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, another name, Matisse s Thaibo. I'm hearing out there

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Speaker 4: there's teams that interested in him, but Matisse, being that

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Speaker 4: he was his deal was Max match excuse me when

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Speaker 4: he signed an off seat with Dallas Portland match. So therefore,

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Speaker 4: for this season he has veto power over any potential trade.

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Speaker 4: So it's it's Matisa's call on where he gets to

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Speaker 4: go if there is a trade that can be made

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Speaker 4: this season.

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Speaker 1: But Bradley Bradley Beal has the only no trade clause

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. But when you are when you are

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Speaker 1: a restricted free agent and you sign an offer sheet

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Speaker 1: and the offer sheet is matched for one year, you

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Speaker 1: do get veto power over trades. And that's what Matise has.

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Speaker 4: And I'm told Portland is not looking to move Matise,

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Speaker 4: which I know that's not what some teams want to hear,

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Speaker 4: but that that's what I'm told as of now.

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Speaker 1: So you are going to be at MAVs nets in

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 4: I'll be there. Yes, I like it. I like getting Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'll be there, will you Stein?

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Speaker 1: No, Well, now you're gonna be my eyes and ears.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to go to Brooklyn. I just can

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Speaker 1: check in with you and you'll tell me everything that's happening.

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Speaker 1: That game is the one year anniversary I believe of

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks acquisition of Kyrie irving from the nets. Pretty

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Speaker 1: sure that happened in February sixth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Okay, and that is and Ki should be he should

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Speaker 4: be backed by that game. I would it's a pretty

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Speaker 4: good shot he'll be back, if not before that, maybe

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Speaker 4: that game. Well, I'm potentially that's what I'm potentially hearing, potentially.

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Speaker 1: Potentially out there, Producer Ryan underlined, potentially for mister Haynes.

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Speaker 4: Potentially.

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Speaker 1: All right, I think we're gonna leave it there. I

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Speaker 1: think in this two parter though we covered quite a

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Speaker 1: bit of ground. We touched on a lot of stuff,

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Speaker 1: and we will get together before that Mavericks Nets game

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday and do this again with certainly more trade

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Speaker 1: deadline preview, trade deadline analysis, and who knows, maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: even have trade number seven to dissect.

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Speaker 1: We are into year two and happily, so we will

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